How much does Cripus Attucks Sacrifice mean to American History?

Thanks for reminding us SPC Andrew Griffin FYI here is more information on Crispus from the website I have linked to my response.
"Crispus Attucks, one of the first men to die for American Revolution, was a fugitive slave who had escaped from his master and had worked for twenty years as a merchant seaman. When Samuel Adams, prominent leader of the struggle against British domination of the American colonies, called upon the dock workers and seamen in the port of Boston to demonstrate against the British troops guarding the customs commissioners, Crispus Attucks responded to the plea. Aroused by Adams' exhortations, a group of 40 to 50 patriots, armed with clubs, sticks and snowballs, approached the British soldiers. Attucks was apparently in the front of the line of the aroused citizens, urging them on. Suddenly there was a terse order--"Fire!" The British troops responded with a barrage of rifle fire."
"Crispus Attucks was the first to fall in the celebrated "Boston Massacre" of 1770. Four other Americans died that night from the action. Samuel Adams used the incident to incite the colonists to further rebellion. Although only five people were killed, Adams termed it a "massacre" of innocent citizens by the tyrannical mother country. Paul Revere published a poem and a drawing of this famous incident in the Boston Gazette on March 12, 1770."
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If you will excuse the Turn of a Phrase. I think we should find out more about this Man and teach people about him, so that All Americans are aware that African Americans have had "Skin" in the Game, so to speak, from the Very First Shot. Sharp Looking Gentleman that I would really have loved to have learned more about him.

The British in the decade of the 1770's were enforcing the "Navigation Acts" which necessitated that all trade within the British Empire be handled by British owned & flagged vessels and they also "impressed" merchant seamen into either the Royal Navy or their merchant fleet. Those were dangerous days to disagree with agents of the King. Crispus Attucks became one of the first fatalities of the Revolutionary War era which was a distinctive most men would pass up if they could!